The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation eBook

One cannot help but compare the tobacco smoking dull
brained sot-tish students with these giants of moral
and physical manhood. These young I men were
the greatest argument in favor of prohibition.
God will bless the Woolley club of Ann Arbor and all
such as they.

AT HIGH MASS, BUFFALO, OCT. 27

I attended High Mass in St. Joseph Cathedral.
One of the priests, Mr. Percell, was taking up the
collection. He came to where I was sitting but
the smell of cigarette smoke was so strong about him
that I could not refrain from a rebuke, so I said:
“You smell so bad from cigarette smoke.”

He said: “Who?”

I said: “You!”

He said: “You are a liar!”

I said: “No I am not, you do smell bad!”

He said: “I will have you put out of this
church!”

I said: “I dare you! You are the one
that should be put out!”

He passed on and after Mass I went into the house
of the priest’s and asked for him. He could
not be found but two priests tried to make excuses
and treated me well. Said they smoked. I
told them God said for them to cleanse themselves
from all filthiness of the flesh. That they were
making provisions for the flesh to fulfill the lusts
thereof. I said: “What a shame for
a man to dress like a saint and to smell like a devil!”

One thing I have noticed—­that the Catholic
schools taught by the Brothers are saturated with
vile tobacco smoke. I would not like to send
a son to such a place for that reason alone. There
are many things I like about the Catholic church,
but why, oh, why is it so silent as a general thing
on the liquor traffic? Why are so many of its
members in this devil’s work? Oh! what
a retribution will be theirs when it will be proven
that instead of clothing the naked they have robbed
children of clothes. Instead of feeding the hungry
they have allowed them to starve because their bread
was taken to buy drink. They sent souls to prison
and did not minister to them!

CHAPTER XII.

WOMAN’S SUFFRAGE

In all ages woman has taken an active part in the
defense of man. She is the best defender he ever
had on earth, because she is his mother. True
mothers think more of the interest of their children
than of their own. God intended it so, All animals
have a care for their offspring. The hen will
fight the hawk or dog, even man, to defend her little
chicks. The farmer’s wife will not set
a hen the second time that will not fight for her
little chickens. Such hens are taken to market.
I have heard my mother say: “I must set
that hen again for she is such a good mother.”
The mother bear will die fighting for her cubs.
The hunters say they dislike to kill her, because
of her mother love, that never yields up those two
little cubs that she places behind her, and then fights
until she dies. This is the mother love of a
brute,—­what ought to be that of the human
family?